On 25/06/2008, at 7:35 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hi Folks
under pressure a few years ago i changed from Panorama to Filemaker
and although it does the job i find it so frustrating at times.
The biggest headache is with searches... with Panorama I could
search for say 'big' and not 'red' and not 'green' but with
Filemaker i have to search big and blue, big and white, big and
yellow, big and brown....etc etc etc. The again with Panorama if i
had forgotten something i could then search within the results found
but with Filemaker i have to start again.
Anyway that's how it seems to me...i would love or someone to tell
me i'm wrong and point me to something i've missed as i have a
decision to make.... either convert my database back to Panorama or
upgrade to Filemaker 9
Of course any other advice welcome
When you are performing a (non-scripted) search in Filemaker, make
sure you have the grey status area exposed on the left hand side of
the window. Enter Find Mode, and type (using your example) "big" into
your search field. Go to the "Requests" Menu and choose "Add New
Request". Type "red" into your search field and click the "Omit"
checkbox in the Status Area. To the same for every other term you wish
to omit from the search.
The Filemaker Help covers this quite well ("Finding records except
those matching criteria", for example).
--
Peter Hinchliffe Apwin Computer Services
FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer
Perth, Western Australia
Phone (618) 9332 6482 Fax (618) 9332 0913
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